Sherilyn Fenn
I gained 50 pounds when I was carrying my baby.
Every time I think I'd want a huge, huge career, I realize I'd go crazy under that kind of scrutiny.
I'm a walking contradiction. I am funny that way.
For many years, I didn't feel I'd find anything that I'd like as much as 'Twin Peaks.'
Prince inspired me. He changed my life. I will miss him greatly.
There will only ever be one Prince.
I loved doing 'Gilmore Girls.' I love Amy Sherman-Palladino. I'd do anything with her.
Sometimes I'm like Dory from 'Finding Nemo.' I can't remember facts.
Those 'Airplane!' type of movies, they've never been my cup of tea.
If you're a young woman in Hollywood, then they want you to look a certain way and paint you in this and that.
I'm in a space of surrendering and being open and seeing. It's a good place to be - the only place to be.
The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom. And as much as the youth-glorifying Hollywood would like us to believe, it's nothing. They're wrong.
Being a mother for me was like, 'Oh, this is what I've been looking for my whole life.' This brings me a sense of completion. I never knew I would love this deeply. It's so nice not to worry about myself anymore. I only worry about my children.
When certain doors opened around 'Twin Peaks,' I wasn't interested in walking through them. Now I just feel like I'm more open to life. I have two children. My life is not dependent on the business in that way.
Even if your work touches one person, that's an amazing gift.Collection: Persons
There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcomeCollection: Worry
People who think they know me would be surprised that my whole life doesn't revolve around sex.Collection: Sex
I was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant when was that I don't go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don't like the script, they know itCollection: Stars
The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom.Collection: Age
That was cool, getting to work with Ryan Gosling. I knew he was going to be a huge star after I saw him in that Showtime thing that he did when he was really young [The Believer]. I think the most fun thing about that was I'd never seen somebody that had so many questions about the specifics of everything: where you ate, how much you ate, how much you drank. He's very special.Collection: Stars
Twin Peaks was special because it was so groundbreaking. In the early 90s it really changed television a lot. A bunch of weird shows, like Northern Exposure, came on after that.Collection: Special
I see people giving me looks because I'm so opinionated. That hurts my feelings, but at the end of the day I have to live with me and respect myself. And I've done enough things in my life where I was confused and didn't respect myself that I will not do it any more.Collection: Hurt
If you're a young woman in Hollywood, then they want you to look a certain way and paint you in this and that. To this day, it's hard to find people like us, who want to kind of find deep truths, not just skirt above the top of it.Collection: People
I'm honest. I say what I feel. I try to be tactful, but I can't not say what I feel. I have a really big problem with that.Collection: Trying
I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tellCollection: Stories
Boxing Helena was something that I think was pretty cool, but people judged it without even having seen it. It's not perfect, but I think for the story that we were trying to tell, it turned out pretty good. What it signified was really powerful to me: how society puts us in boxes one way or another.Collection: Powerful
For me acting is pretending. It's illuminating my human struggle - trying to grow and have the courage to be filmed while figuring things out.Collection: Struggle
I love to dance. But I don't like being up in front of tons of people. I didn't have that in me to do it, the desire to be performing in front of a lot of people. If there's a lot of people on a set, I get nervous. So music just wasn't something I ever seriously considered.Collection: People
They've offered me every variation on Audrey Horne, none of which were as good or as much fun.Collection: Fun
In a perfect world, I could be doing some bigger films and balance that with some independent films because they seem to be the most challenging and uniqueCollection: Independent
We all have sadness in our life and things that we can draw uponCollection: Sad
I like taking risks and I decided to put every bit of me into the role.Collection: Risk
I don't know why people see the things that they do. I wouldn't pay to see them, they don't touch me or move me in any way.Collection: Moving
I can sing, but my voice is untrained. Id like to do a musical someday.Collection: Voice
You say a line and you wait for them to laugh, then you say another line and you wait... It felt weird to me. But it's interesting and the energy is almost like theatre, I suppose, with all the people thereCollection: People
Jessica Lange in Frances... was dramatic and passionate and one of the strongest performances I've seen a woman doCollection: Passionate
Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men... they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.Collection: Men
I think there's an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we're complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happenCollection: Past
Playing Elizabeth Taylor was probably the hardest job I've ever done.Collection: Jobs
Instead of making Friday The 13th, Part VIII or whatever, I was making the girl-meets-boy, girl-meets-girl-dressed-as-boy movie. It was fun. I liked it. It's goofy. I look back at myself and think, "What the hell was I doing?"Collection: Girl
It was just this sudden call like it was an emergency. "Quick! You have to go do this... because it's Friends!" I was just, "Oh, my God, okay!"Collection: Emergencies
I remember my agent at the time called me and was like, "I've got it! I've found it! I've found your role!" I worked my ass off to get that role, because I think me and three or four other girls tested for it. But it was a great time.Collection: Girl
I'd moved to L.A. with my mother when I was 17 or 18. She loved show business and I was young enough that I had no idea what I wanted to do.Collection: Mother
I said, "Oh well, I'll act." I started to study, but I didn't know what I was doing, and I don't know that I was taking it very seriously then.Collection: Study
I'm not big with an audience; I get very nervous.Collection: Nervous
Talking to fans has really blown my mind. It's made me so happy to know my work has touched people.Collection: Talking
My gift to my children would be from me to be as honest and true to myself as an artist, and put that out there to the best of my ability.Collection: Children
It's so nice not to worry about myself anymore. I only worry about my children.Collection: Children
Life is really beautiful.Collection: Beautiful